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Chapter 22

Dean said" Wow, guy goes to purgatory for a year, all hell breaks loose. Check this out. A jogger in Minneapolis gets his heart ripped out."
Sam said" I'm guessing literally."
" Only way that interests me. And then, there's another article from six months ago. Same thing happens, also in Minneapolis. What does that tell us?"
" Stay out of Minneapolis."
" Two hearts ganked, same city, six months apart. I mean, that's gotta be a ritual, man. Or at least some sort of a heart-sucking, possessed, satanic crack-whore bat."
Sam and I said" A what?"
" It's a case. Look, I say we hang out the shingle again and ride."
Sam said" We're on a case, Dean. Kevin and the demon tablet need to be found, so heart guy takes a number."
" Uh, we just spent a week chasing our asses trying to lock Kevin down, okay? And look at us, we're- where the hell are we?" He stopped, noticing our surroundings finally,
" Farmers' market. Organic. What? I had a year off. I took the time to enjoy the good things."
" While avoiding doing what we actually do."
" Wow, Dean, does it make you feel that much better every time you say it?"
" All right, man, look, I get it. You took a year off to do yoga and play the lute, whatever, but I'm back. Okay, we're back, which means that we walk and kill monsters at the same time. We'll find Kevin. But in the meantime, do we ignore stuff like this? Or are innocent people supposed to die so that you can shop for produce." I laughed," What's funny, water boy?"
I said" You. Sam. Everything?"
" You're terrible."
" I know! It helps me sleep at night." I smirked, walking away from them, Dean groaned and looked at Sam, they exchanged looks before following after me.
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Sam and Dean talked to the witness, who last saw the vic,
Sam said" What did you find poking around at Paul's?"
Dean said" Ah, just the usual- condoms, hair gel. No hex bags, nothing satanic, nothing spooky."
" So, he didn't seem like the guy who would be voted most likely to disembowel?"
" No, they never do. Wait a minute. Here's another one."
" What, murder?"
" And a do-it-yourself heart bypass. Two days after this one."
" What part of Minneapolis?"
" The Iowa part. Ames."
" Well, Paul was here being questioned. There's no way that could have been him."
" This guy was a cop. This is exactly what happened six months ago. Minneapolis, then Ames. Guess you missed that one. I'm just saying."

Sam recorded the next guy they went to speak too, K'uhul ajaw, cacao, shi-jiiy.
Sam said" So, what do you think?"
Dean said" Personally, I prefer the Keith Richards version."
" Can you actually understand any of the words?"
" If they are words. Sounds like babble to me. Wait a second."
" What?"
" I bought a translation app."
" You bought an app."
" Yeah. Here, play it." Sam played it next to the phone." And babble wins. Language unknown." My body tensed up, I gripped my shirt in my hand, waiting it out. Sam's phone rang, he answered,
" Agent Sambora. What?"
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Sam said" Arthur Swenson had an eye transplant a year ago, right?"
Dean said" Yeah." I walked out of the bathroom,
" Well, I remembered that Paul Hayes was talking about a health scare he had a year ago that changed his life, so I pulled up his medical records from Minneapolis." He stopped as he noticed Dean staring," You want me on board, I'm on board. Anyways, you want to guess who else, other than Arthur Swenson, had a transplant in the last year?"
" Paul Hayes."
" I gave it away, didn't I?"
" Okay, so we've got two suspects in two identical murders in two different cities that both had organ transplants a year ago."
" Yeah. Also..."
" I love when there's an also."
" I got to thinking about all that stuff Arthur Swenson was talking about. Maybe your translation app called it language unknown because it's a dead language, like ancient greek or manx."
" Manx?"
" So I emailed an audio file of Arthur's mumbling to Dr. Morrison."
" Who?"
" Dr. Morrison, the anthropology professor who helped us out with the amazons."
" Yes, okay. Okay. Well, let's get our asses on the road."
" Headed to..."
" Well, if we are on a repeat of a cycle from six months ago, then, after the murders in Minneapolis and in Ames. The next heart attack was in Boulder, Colorado."